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Sustainable tourism can directly contribute to biodiversity conservation by:-

  • Offering less destructive livelihood alternatives to local communities and landowners in buffer zones and conservation corridors, away from unregulated logging, intensive cattle-ranching, monoculture, hunting, and unsustainable tourism
  • Providing an incentive for public and private landowners in critical ecosystems to permanently conserve biodiversity-rich properties, by offering revenue-producing, low-impact economic use
  • Providing protected area managers with additional financial resources from visitation and donations
  • Raising visitor awareness, promoting community involvement and interest in conservation issues and generating political support for conservation through environmental education during travel.

Christ, C; Hillel, O; Matus, S; Sweeting, J; (2003) Tourism and Biodiversity -- Mapping Tourism’s Global Footprint. Conservation International, Washington, DC; United Nations Environment Programme, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, France.

Mader, Ron (2008) Tourism and Biodiversity, Planeta.com

Do you know of any other examples, good and bad, of tourism's impacts on biodiversity? If so, share them with us here. 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity.

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beyondtouring Belize: Ecotourists Can Make a Difference 4 Apr 7 2009, 10:36 PM EDT by beyondtouring
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"Giving back" while you travel is one of Beyond Touring missions, slowly but surely our grass roots movement is making a difference! And this is solely possible due to ecotourists who travel with us, their booking fees, their time, & their efforts are helping with this community development project.

Thus far the Indian Church Village Library & it's programs is our star project, please check it out!!

We welcome & need help:

http://www.beyondtouring.com/Giveback/Giveback.htm
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planeta Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award 2 Dec 18 2008, 2:34 PM EST by planeta
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ANNOUNCEMENT - Planeta.com and the Secretariat of the Convention on
Biological Diversity are collaborating to showcase indigenous owned
and operated websites that promote sustainable practices. Nominations
are now open for the Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award.

Details
>> http://planeta.wikispaces.com/itbw

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World's Indigenous People and Tourism Forum
http://forum.planeta.com/viewforum.php?f=95

Presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/planeta/itbw-presentation

Tourism and indigenous people
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/tour/indigenous.html
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